netdev - Re: [PKT_SCHED] act_gact: division by zero

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Message-ID: <456EE541.6010904@trash.net>
Date:	Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:05:53 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	"Nordlund Kim (Nokia-NET/Helsinki)" <Kim.Nordlund@...ia.com>
CC:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PKT_SCHED] act_gact: division by zero

Nordlund Kim (Nokia-NET/Helsinki) wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, ext Patrick McHardy wrote:
> 
>>I think it should reject an invalid configuration or handle
>>the zero case correctly by not dividing.
> 
> 
> You are correct. Not returning -EINVAL, because someone might
> want to use the value zero in some future gact_prob algorithm?

That looks good, thanks.
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